Human beings,
we can turn on the stress response, just by thought alone.
You can think about your problems and you're producing the same
biological effects.
So, those chemicals give the brain and body a rush of energy.
And people become addicted to that rush of energy.
So now they use the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm
their addiction to that emotion.
They need the bad job.
They need the poor relationship.
So, that means they become addicted to the life that they don't even like!
If you get angry at a co-worker, and all of a sudden you get an
arousal in your brain and body,
you get a rush of energy,
when you start noticing that your body starts dropping, your brain
starts noticing your energy starts dropping, you're automatically
going to have the image of the co-worker in order to what? Give your
body the jolt, right?
So all of a sudden, people become addicted to their own thoughts!
So, these people realize that, oh my God,
I've been mismanaging my attention and energy,
and I got to get beyond my past,
I got to get beyond these emotions,
I got to make some big changes.
I got to break the habit of being myself, you know, I gotta stop being
this person.
Now, that sounds really good theoretically and philosophically,
but change is such a hard thing, right? Because the moment you come back
to your senses and you step back into your life and you see that
person, or you go to that place, or you're with that experience,
so many
people are unconsciously reacting in their thoughts and feelings to
everything in their environment.
So, now their environment is controlling how they think and feel.
So, they realize that in order to change
they got to be greater than their environment, greater than the
conditions in the world. Because the moment you start reacting
emotionally, emotions are a record of the past.
And if those emotions are driving your thoughts, you're thinking in
the past! And if you can't think greater than how you feel, and you
believe your thoughts have
something to do with your destiny, you're creating more of your past!
So, turns out that the repetition of thinking and feeling, and feeling
of thinking, these loops that people get caught in, condition their
body to subconsciously become the mind of that emotion. Which means now,
their body as their unconscious mind is believing
they're living in the same past experience 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, 365 days a year.
What's the relevance behind that?
Well, the latest research on genes says: Genes don't create disease.
It's the environment that signals the gene that creates disease. The emotional
environment or the physical environment? Your environment, any environmental
reaction. But if you're reacting emotionally to your environment the
same way, you're signaling the same genes in the same way, and now you're
headed for a genetic destiny.
So, the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons that create disease.
If you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone, your
thoughts could make you sick!
And if your thoughts can make you sick, is it possible that your
thoughts can make you well? So I began
to realize that
oh my God, the repetition of thinking and feeling, and feeling and
thinking caused me to feel guilt.
And I don't even know it's guilt, it just feels like me.
I'm used to the same chemical continuity.
Now, the moment they decided to change, anytime you decide to change
and change anything about yourself, getting ready! Because it's going
to feel uncomfortable.
You're going to leave the known, you're going leave the familiar and going to
step into the unknown. Because some people are super happy being unhappy!
So then, they would rather cling to their suffering than take a chance
and possibility.
So, these people said: I really have nothing to lose, right?
So then they said: I'm willing to be uncomfortable and be in the
unknown, and the turns out - that's the perfect place to create from.
So, when the body is conditioned to become the mind, then to change is
to be greater than the body, right?
How we become greater than the body?
Well, that's a whole another conversation.
Let me finish this.
So, the third thing they said was: Okay,
now that I know that I got to break the habit of
being myself and I can't mismanage my thoughts and feelings,
I got to change how I act, I going to watch how I speak,
I got to become conscious of how unconscious I am, because 95% of who we are
by the time we're 35 years old
is a set of memorized behaviors. Like a computer program, emotional
reactions, unconscious beliefs and perceptions.
So, the first step to change is to become conscious of how you think,
to notice how you act, to pay attention to how you feel. And the act of
observing those states of mind and body
separates you from that program.
Now you're the consciousness observing that program. And turns out,
the more conscious you become of how unconscious you are,
you know, lighting a match in a dark place, that first step creates
enormous amounts of chaos in the brain and body.
And it's disturbing.
So, people just go back to the same addiction, the same emotion, the
same problem. It just feels better. No, that feels familiar.
So they said: Okay, now I got to change.
I got to reinvent myself.
Now, this is really important. Because they started
sitting down and thinking:
Okay, who in history
do I admire? Who are great people, role models that I can follow?
What are the qualities and characteristics that they have?
How am I going to change?
You know, these are what we call "frontal lobe questions", the
creative center of the brain switches on. And the emotional center settles down.
So, then they started thinking: How would I have to be in a new life
if I was really going to heal, what would I have to change about myself?
Now, there's this interesting phenomenon that if you close your eyes
and you
begin to think about doing something, you're an athlete, you understand this,
if your background in football and you are running a pattern or you
are doing something, you would rehearse it in your mind. Turns out that
the act of mentally rehearsing something, when you're truly present,
your brain does not know the difference between what's going on out there
and what's going on in here.
In fact, your brain will begin to look like you've been doing it for
the last 5 days, and you've never run the course.
So now your brain is no longer a record of the past.
Because typically it is. Now it's a map to the future.
So, now you're priming your brain.
So, that became the very platform. You know, experiments with piano
players, you know, you take a group of people that never played the
piano before, you divide them into two different categories.
You take one group of people, you teach them one-handed scales and chords.
You do a brain scan on them.
They come and practice for 2 hours a day for 5 days. At the end of 5 days,
if you rescan the brain, they drew new circuits on the opposite side
of the brain.
Nothing magical there.
You learn
something new, learning is making new connections.
Get some instruction, you get instruction, get your body involved, get
your body involved,
you're gonna have an experience, experience enriches the brain.
Pay attention to what you're doing,
you got to pay attention and repeat it - firing
and wiring, you're going to assemble new circuits. You can take the
other group of people, have them come for 2 hours a day for 5 days,
do a brain scan before and the brain scan after. Have them close their
eyes and mentally rehearse playing those scales and chords.
At the end of 5 days
they'll grow the same amount of circuits in their brain as the people
who actually physically demonstrated
the action.
What does that mean?
It means, not only that they changed their brain by thinking differently,
but their brain looks like they've been playing the piano for 5 days.
Set them in front of a piano, they never played the piano before, they'll play
those scales and chords. Because their brain is wired to play it.
So now, the act of rehearsing who they're going to be, what are the
qualities, and beginning to get in this creative state, began to lay
down the circuits of a new personality. And a new personality is
connected to a new personal reality.
So, the next
question is: Does that change the body?
Take a group of men, have them do one-handed curls in their mind and
bring an emotional component, like stronger, harder, more intense.
1 hour a day for 2 weeks. At the end of 2 weeks,
13.5% increase in muscle strength, never lifted a weight.
Now their body is changing by thought alone!
So, these people began to reprogram their brain and body. And all of a sudden,
they began to act differently.
Why?
Because they install the circuits.
They began to think differently.
Of course, they began to feel differently.
They were no longer feeling pain.
They're actually liking themselves, right?
So, they're living by a different emotion, and they're feeling an
elevated emotion before their healing, before they were healed.
They're not waiting for their healing to feel joy and gratitude.
They're feeling gratitude and joy.
Now their body's believing that it's healed! Because the body's
feeling the emotion ahead of the experience, that the environment
signals the gene, and the end product of an experience in the
environment is emotion,
you're signaling
the gene ahead of the environment! And what do genes do? Genes make
proteins. And what are proteins responsible for? The structure and
function of the body!
Now you're literally becoming somebody else.
And now you're turning down the genes for disease and you're turning up
these other genes.
So, I started to realize that this reinvention process is exactly what
we've always done.
It's just that we get complacent in certain areas of our life and we stop.
Now, the last thing they had in common, the 4th thing
is that when they were doing that rehearsal process, they had
long moments where they lost track of time and space.
In other words,
they were so involved in their inner world of imaging that when they
turn the light on in the room, or they lift their blindfold, or whatever
they were doing,
they thought it was 20 minutes later. And it was an hour and 20 minutes later.
And when you're truly focused and you're truly paying attention and
you're in the present moment, all of a sudden you will leave this
3-dimensional reality.
And when you leave this 3-dimensional reality, there's only one
other place you go.
And that is the realm of thought. And that's called "the quantum field".
And that quantum field is where all possibilities exist, right?
So, they were connecting to a field of information that had everything
to do with the first principle, which is that invisible intelligence
is both within us and all around us, personal and universal.
It is the unifying field that governs
everything material in this world. And if you're going to change something material,
that means you got to get beyond
your body to heal your body!
Because if your body's trying to heal your body, there's one thing
that we can guarantee - it's going to take time.
It's going to just take a long time, because you're playing by the
rules of Newtonian physics. If you play by the rules of quantum physics,
energy dictates matter. So, when you're truly in the field and you're
making changes there, then the downward cascade neurologically,
biologically, chemically, hormonally, genetically, is the side effect of
what's happening in the field!
Exactly.
So, you do it in less time. Because you're more
connected to a realm that doesn't play by time.
It just requires getting still, closing your eyes, putting your
attention on your heart, changing your breath so that you move into
the present moment.
And when you slow your breathing down, you slow your brain waves down.
When you slow your brain waves down, now you're accessing your
autonomic nervous system.
So then, you train a person how to open their heart and feel an
elevated emotion, and it takes a little practice. And just like a
flower that takes time to bloom,
it takes a little bit of time. But if you work and trading the resentment,
the frustration, or the impatience for gratitude, appreciation and
thankfulness,
and you keep add it,
there will come a moment where that system switches on, and now you're
feeling grateful for no reason at all, right?
That's not a bad thing.
You'll accept, believe and surrender to the thoughts equal to the
emotional state of gratitude.
If you're living in resentment, you're living in fear, you're living
in impatience,
you could say: I'm healthy,
I'm healthy,
I'm healthy, I'm wealthy, I'm wealthy, all you want. And that thought
is going to stop right at the brainstem and never make its way to
the body. Because the body is...
Because you're feeling resentment, and that thought
is not consistent with the emotion of resentment. Resentment
has a different set of thoughts, right?
In other words,
once you start opening your heart,
it begins to move into coherence.
It begins to produce a measurable
magnetic field, up to 3 meters wide.
Now that's frequency.
That's energy. And all that energy, that frequency, carries information,
carries an intent.
So then, when you're feeling gratitude and your heart is open, you're
broadcasting energy into the field!
Frequency. A frequency. You lay the intent of the thought of your
health or your wealth, that frequency
can carry the thought of your wealth.
It can carry the thought of your health!